ALBUM GUIDE // “Sure Sure”

1. “Giants” – Started writing this tune during a Dungeons and Dragons quest in which we were fighting a lot of rogue giants. Actually, we’re still on the same quest.

2. “Friends” – A song about discovering your love is unrequited at a Baja Fresh.

3. “New Biome” – Inspired by Minecraft and also by extensive water damage caused by a burst pipe at our house.

4. “This Must Be The Place” – One of the best love songs of all time! Thank you, Talking Heads!

5. “Koreatown’ – Chris and Charlie wrote this the day after a late night out on the town, which involved getting turned away from a downtown club because they were wearing sneakers; a futile quest into Silver Lake to see a DJ set by Erykah Badu; and finally, in Koreatown, a 4AM round of the world’s best four player card game—euchre.

6. “Solstice Song” – An old tune! Charlie and Chris wrote this during the melancholic yet beatific days before they moved from SF to LA.

7. “Hands Up Head Down” – Started with a drum loop that Kevin made as a joke. Charlie and Chris took it very seriously. Also, we needed a song with a dance move.

8. “lowlife” – This bad boy is about the big freedom you feel after a breakup.

9. “Foreign Room” – OK on this one, Kevin, Chris and Mike feel 1, where Charlie feels the end of 4. In case you were wondering where exactly 1 was. It’s in two places pal

10. “Fat Lady” – Also a super old tune from Chris and Charlie’s San Francisco days! Actually, it’s the first song those two boys wrote together after their previous band broke up.

11. “Information Machine” – A song that danced out of the cosmos and through Charlie and his toy ukulele in an Ann Arbor bed and breakfast.